Some in another forum I participate in grumble occasionally when direct language is used - or, more precisely, when I use direct language - to describe bluntly the ongoing, systematic, multi-faceted destruction of the United States of America and call out the lawless seditionists and traitors who are directly and indirectly responsible for what is happening to our great nation.
The day of plain-speaking has arrived. Way past time for deferring politely to the tender sensitivities of those who take umbrage at being challenged in their sedition and treason - their outright evil.
We are not attending a garden party, sipping tea out of porcelain teacups with pinkies raised -
- chatting amicably and disagreeing politely here and there regarding matters of little or no consequence.
We are engaged in a no-holds-barred street fight. Everything we hold dear, everything that matters - our health, our prosperity, our God-given freedom, our physical safety - indeed our very lives - is at stake - and we are running out of time. Our enemies are the seditionists and traitors among us. They are determined in their course, and they are easily recognized.
They are those who are bought and paid for by and have sold us out to our principal geopolitical enemy, China, collaborated with that enemy in perpetrating on our nation the greatest assault on our liberty in our history - the Covid Pseudo-Pandemic/Covid Vaccine Swindle (and are likely planning to do it again) - thrown open our borders to any America-hating scumbag or terrorist who wishes to enter (then giving him a cell phone, an airplane ticket and putting him up in a 5-star hotel at your expense), turned a blind eye to the literal poisoning of our children (Chinese fentanyl), the physical mutilation of our children (“gender-affirming surgery”), the spiritual mutilation of our children (“Drag Queen Day at School”) -
- woosified and racialized our military, urinated away our military preparedness and stockpile of weaponry in a foreign war we have no true interest in (leaving us unprepared and vulnerable when the real conflict with our arch-enemy China begins), decimated our national wealth and spent us into penury, encumbered our children and grandchildren with massive debt they will never be able to pay, destroyed the credibility of the Dollar as the world’s reserve currency, sought to divide our citizenry based on imaginary issues (“White Supremacy! Institutional Racism!”), corrupted our electoral process (resulting in stolen elections) and have sought aggressively to defame and overthrow the God-based philosophical, moral and spiritual foundations our country is built upon.
In a word, they have sought and are seeking the destruction of traditional America.
Mad yet? If not, you are no American.
Is any reader naive enough to believe these people - those who have brought our country to the brink of collapse - are not truly our enemies in the most profound sense? Obsessed with power, they ultimately don't care a whit about the lives and well-being of their fellow citizens. Unbounded by any legal or moral constraints, they will do anything to obtain and retain power - and the more absolute that power, the better.
They know what they are after. They know the unforgiving, brutal nature of the ongoing conflict between good and evil and play accordingly, but many on the conservative side, the patriotic side, do not. They still want to believe we are attending a garden party where, above all, we must be polite… Our enemies are counting on us to continue in that mindset.
In truth, we face a Godless, lawless fifth column in America, populated by traitors. In every way they are alien to the letter and spirit of traditional America. They seek the capture and overthrow of our free and democratic Republic, its divinely inspired Constitution, its hallowed institutions, and the Judeo/Christian value system that underpins it all.
You can water it down and blow smoke, but that's what it boils down to. As I have repeatedly observed, if we refuse to name the beast for what it truly is, we will never understand what we are up against and will never defeat it.
Again, the time for plain-speaking has arrived. What is important is to find and speak the truth, call spades spades, and, without respect to persons, call the beast by its true names.
The object is always to get at the truth. Truth is the path to freedom. Hmmm… who was it who said that?
The rules that govern the pursuit of truth are vastly and recognizably different than those employed in the pursuit of goals other than truth. Fortunately, this is not rocket science:
The credibility of WHAT you argue or see argued is directly a function of HOW it is argued.
Find the truth in the methodology of argument. The truth cuts is own way and can be argued for in an honest, open manner that does not insult the intelligence of those it seeks to persuade. Deceit cannot be so argued.
As the Chinese saying has it, "True gold isn't afraid of the fiery furnace." Accordingly, in pursuit of truth, and governed by the associated rules and methodology that lead to it - which include high-temperature refining in the furnace of ideas - nothing is better than testing ideas in that furnace. Everyone is free to do that, but no one has a right to his opinions free of criticism.
Truth stands the test. Deceit does not.
If you can't take the heat, you don't understand the process, have proven the inferiority of your argument and would do well to exist the kitchen.
There are only two sides in this existential conflict.
Only one side can win.
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, courage vs. cowardice, law vs. lawlessness, order vs. chaos, liberty vs. tyranny, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, life vs. death, God vs. the Godless…
Time to pick a side. You will, one way or another.
If you can be fooled, you will be.
These are the times that try men’s souls.
Torquemada
Spot on, Ron . . .